Issue #13 of the broadsheet newspaper publication of the Platypus Affiliated Society in Chicago, New York City and Boston. July 2009 articles include: The role of socialists in the civil war in Sri Lanka by Rohini Hensman; Film review: Che by Ryan Hardy; Book review: Susan Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History by Soren Whited; Left behind: the working class in the crisis by Chuck Hendricks, Aaron Hughes, Abraham Mwaura and James Thindwa.